<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Greyshaft<br/> 1. Have you played cardboard WiF sufficiently to play independantly?<I><s>[i]</s> If not, I will look to team you up with an experienced player who will undertake to answer your rule based questions.<e>[/i]</e></I> <B><s>[b]</s>YES/NO<e>[/b]</e></B><...

<t> Churchill.<br/> <br/> He had enough influence as First Sea Lord that he could be said to have commanded the Gallipoli campaign in it's entirety...The major problem with the land campaign is that the Turks were thoroughly tipped off that they were coming. Remember that there was an attempt severa...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Adnan Meshuggi<br/> From the strategical point of view, the western allies should have sit out this war. Time was on their side. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Overall, probably yes, but Germany was catching up with Britain as an industrial power which was a concern...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: SirRodneyOfGout<br/> <br/> To follow the logic of "The success of 1918 was built on the solid work of 1917" further - The Somme planning was based on what had been learned in 1915. But that it took the British from 1915 to 1918, with all the associated costs, to de...

<t> An interesting argument that...<br/> <br/> I do tend to believe in the idea that nations act in their best interest, and that 'moral' arguments are usually more of an afterthought, so the idea has appeal to me. Not sure how valid it is, but I wont rule it out...as a contributing factor at least....

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: wodin<br/> <br/> If America had stayed neutral the Germany would not have launched the March offensive, which in the end finished them off. With all the extra men they could have kept the war going and eventually made a peace deal which wouldnt have been as harsh a...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Lava<br/> <br/> Hi!<br/> <br/> Something that I think people don't appreciate, which had a bearing on just about every topic you want to discuss concerning the Western Front (including leadership), was how "terrain" effected operations.<br/> <br/> By "terrain" I do...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Raverdave<br/> <br/> Well if the French had been doing it for so long how come they had nothing to show for it? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> They actually took quite a bit of ground in late '17 and early '18..including most of the battleground at Chemin des Dames ...

<t> OK, I read up on the battle of le Hamel.<br/> <br/> It was a small action..A quick attack, with limited preperation and limited objectives. <br/> <br/> The French had been doing this for a year before Monash 'invented' it. After the 'mutiny', they refused to launch massed attacked, and their com...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Raverdave<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Telsor1<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> No, he really didn't. he was a very good commander ( for the time), but no, he didn't. In most cases, he couldn't have. Even when he did, it was so late in the war that everyone else...

<r> [what won the day...] <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> 1/Good tactics and use of the weapons available at the time. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Good tactics...In 1916, massed artillery and infantry assualts were good tactics...pretty much everyone thought so.<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> 2/Combind tactics ...

<t> The way it looks to me, the Prussians have the vast majority of their troops at Warsaw.<br/> <br/> Mass your army and hit them. Hard. You have the leaders to have the advantage, and being Rusky, you probably have numbers as well.<br/> <br/> Yes, it'll cost you, but look at the bright side, your ...

Yes, and conrad came up with his plans, and asked Germany for some troops to impliment them with....

Erm...That was a recolection of my first game...long, long ago

<t> I still remember my first game...first turn.<br/> <br/> I was the brits and the french/spanish decided to work the newbie..<br/> <br/> they set up the bulk of their fleets in the london blockade box...the rest in ports under corp.<br/> <br/> Being new, I moved first, and, witha little luck, mana...

<t> My preferred way of playing the african minors is to put the 5 inf in the city as garr and keep the cav in corp...it makes the corps higher morale ( 2 Vs 1.5 ) and you can always run it away and forage it to death if you don't feel like risking battle ( set it up away from the city if this is th...

<t> The Ney to cyrenaica strategy is legal, but only because French is already at war with Britain and Cy is automatically supported.<br/> <br/> I generally have Ney sitting with a corp on the French fleet working as a potential threat and defence against Pippins strategy ( which is well known in my...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Dirtdog20<br/> <br/> Reading one of the early threads on the board they will have a free set up 1914 scenario. One of the biggest what -ifs of history, to me,has always been what if Motlke the younger had said yes to King Wilhelm the II and turned everything on its...

<t> The British did have a number of assurances given to the French under the entente cordiale.<br/> <br/> More importantly, they were very wary of the growing power of the Germans ( particularly their fleet ), and it would be very unlikely they would have stood by and watched a German victory.<br/>...